ROOSA
ROOSEVELT
ROOSA, Daniel Bennett St. John, ophthal-
mologist and otologist, was born in Bethel, N.Y.,
April 4, 183S ; son of Charles Baker and Amelia
Elmer (Foster) Roosa ; grandson of John and
DoUj^ (Durj-ea) Roosa and of Jesse M. and Delia
(Heard) Foster ; and great-grandson of Lieut.
Isaac A. Roosa, Capt. George Duryea, Captain
Foster and General Heard, all officers in the Con-
tinental army. He attended the district school ;
studied under a private tutor and at the academies
in Monticello, N.Y., and Honesdale, Pa., matricu-
lated at Yale college in 1856, but was obliged to
leave on account of ill-health ; studied under a
tutor in Boston for one year, and was graduated
from the Medical department of the Universicy of
the City of New York in 1860. He served in the
New York hospital as junior walker, senior
walker, and house surgeon, 1800-61 ; volunteered
as medical officer in 1861 , and was appointed assist-
ant surgeon of the 5th volunteer regiment, N.G.S.
N.Y., serving in the field four months. He
studied in Berlin and Vienna, devoting himself
especially to ophthalmology and otology, 1862-63,
and in June of the latter year again served in the
field as surgeon of the 12th N. Y. National Guards.
He later practised medicine in New York city ;
was professor of ophthalmology and otologj" in
the University of the City of New York, 1863-82,
and in the University of Vermont, 1875-76 and
1878-83. Upon the organization of the New York
Post-Graduate Medical scliool and hospital in
1882, he was elected president of the faculty and
professor of ophthalmology and otology. He was
first married. May 8, 1862, to Mary Hoyt, daughter
of Stephen M. and Elizabeth (Bowman) Blake of
New York city, who died in 1878 ; and secondly,
July, 1879, to Sarah E., former wife of Frank E.
Howe and daughter of Eder Vreelland and Eliza-
beth (Workam) Haughwout of New York city.
He received the honorary degree of A.M. from
Yale in 1868 ; that of LL. D. from the University
of Vermont, 1881, and was a member of the coun-
cil of the University of the City of New York,
1872-78. He was president of the International
Otological society, 1876 ; of the New York State
Medical society, 1879, and of other scientific
organizations ; a founder of the Manhattan Eye
and Ear hospital in 1869, and one of its surgeons.
He translated from the German : " Troltsch on
the Ear " (1863) , and " Stellwag on the Eye " (with
Hackey and Bull, (1867); and is the author of:
Drs. Vest-Pocket Medical Lexicon (1865; 2d ed.,
1887); Treatise on the Ear (1866), translated into
German, and published in Berlin ; A Doctor's
Suggestions (1880) ; TJie Old Hospital and Other
Papers (1886) ; On the Necessity of Wearing
Glasses (1899) ; Treatise on the Eye, a Clinical
Manual (1891); and frequent contributions to
periodicals.
ROOSEVELT, Edith Kermit, wife of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, was born in Norwich, Conn., Aug.
6, 1861 ; daughter of Cliarles and Gertrude Eliza-
beth (Tyler) Carow ; granddaughter of Isaac and
Eliza (Mowatt) Carow, and of Daniel and Emily
(Lee) Tyler, and a descendant of Isaac Quereau
and Judith Quentin (Huguenots) who emigrated,
from France after the revocation of the edict of
Nantes, first to Holland and then to New York
city, and of Job Tyler and Mary, his wife, who
emigrated from Shropshire, England, were ad-
mitted to the town of Newport, R. I., 1638 (Colo-
nial Records, Vol. 1., p. 92) and settled at Andover,
Mass., 1639. She was educated in New York
city, and was married Dec. 2, 1886, to Theodore
Roosevelt. They made their home at Sagamore
Hill, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y. Following
are tiie names of their children : Theodore, Jr.,
born Sept. 13, 1887 ; Kermit, born Oct. 10, 1889 ;
Ethel Carow, born Aug. 10, 1891 ; Archibald Bul-
loch, born April 9, 1894 ; Quentin, born Nov, 19,
1897. On the accession of her husband to the
Presidency she removed to the Wliite House,
where her social duties were made secondary to
those of her household, and the liome-life at Sag-
amore Hill with its well ordered routine of study
and recreation in which the whole family joined,
was maintained.
ROOSEVELT, James Henry, philanthropist, was born in New York city, Nov. 10, 1800 ; son of James Christopher and Catherine(Byvank) Roose- velt. He was graduated from Columbia college, A.B., 1819, A. M., 1823; and studied law, but never practised, owing to delicate health. He bequeathed $1,000,000 to found the hospital in New York city that bears his name. The build- ing, was opened, Nov. 2, 1871, and the fund had been so ably handled that $3,000,000 was avail- able for the purpose of the bequest. He died in New York city, Nov. 30, 1863.
ROOSEVELT, James I., jurist, was born in New York city, Dec. 14, 1795 ; son of James (or Jacobus) J., and Mary (Van Schaick) Roosevelt ; grandson of Jacobus and Armatje Bogard (or Bogert) Roosevelt ; great-grandson of Johannes and Heyltjes (Sjverts) Roosevelt ; great-^grand- son of Nicholas and Heyltje Jans (Kunst) Roose- velt ; and great-^grandson of Klaas Martenseu and Jannetje (Samuels or Thomas) Roosevelt, New Amsterdam, 1649. His father was a com- missary of New York troops in the American Revolution. He was graduated from Columbia college in 1815, and practised law in partnership with Peter Jay, 1818-30. He supported General Jackson for President in 1838, and resided in Paris, France, 1830-31. On his return to the United States, he was married. May 30, 1831, to Cornelia, daughter of Cornelius P. and Rhoda (Savage) Van Ness of New York city ; resumed
